Hey guys,I am thinking of upgrading my Intel E6750 to an E8600And my EVGA gforce 8800GT graphics card to a gigabyte GTX480/GTX465Will this give a noticeable performance improvement with FSX and PMDG 747 ?thanksyahav

Hey guys,I am thinking of upgrading my Intel E6750 to an E8600And my EVGA gforce 8800GT graphics card to a gigabyte GTX480/GTX465Will this give a noticeable performance improvement with FSX and PMDG 747 ?thanksyahav

The GTX480 kicks some serious you know what. For me, getting that card was like the final icing on the cake to making FSX run great.

Hey guys,I am thinking of upgrading my Intel E6750 to an E8600And my EVGA gforce 8800GT graphics card to a gigabyte GTX480/GTX465Will this give a noticeable performance improvement with FSX and PMDG 747 ?thanksyahav

I would invest more on CPU power...FSX is CPU hungry!David Di Domizio

Are you planning to use only one GTX480? If so, an SLI arrangement of 2x GTX460 could be ideal. And what´s your motherboard?

Hi, a SLI System for FSX is nonsense... FSX doesn´t support a SLI System. FSX support only multi core Systems like i7-Cores.... The more CPU power you have the more smoother will be FSX.With additional tweaking like ******* Altuve you will be very satisfied. Regards Pascal

I would get an i7 (or i5 750/760) and overclock it before you upgrade your video.

I would get an i7 (or i5 750/760) and overclock it before you upgrade your video.

Thank you all for your help!Although my current mother board (P5K) will not support an i7 processor I just found out it will work fine with a quad coreSo for now I will go for the Q9650 core 2quad processor and see what happens.again... thank you all very muchyahav

I doubt you'll see that much of a difference - the reason i5s and i7s are so fast is the architecture, not purely the number of cores or the clock speed. I'd wait until you can afford to upgrade the mobo and RAM too and then do all three at once.

Thank you all for your help!Although my current mother board (P5K) will not support an i7 processor I just found out it will work fine with a quad coreSo for now I will go for the Q9650 core 2quad processor and see what happens.again... thank you all very muchyahav

Yahav,I'm running an E8400 OC'ed to 3.85 and got the 747 last week and have been super happy with the FPS and overall performance I have been getting with it. I'm not that familar with the quad your talking about, but a friend of mine has an E8600 overclocked to 4.0 ghz with 6bg of ram on Vista 64bit and an i7 920 overclocked to 3.75 with 12gb of ram on Win 7 64 bit. On his two systems he said the the E8600 system actually ran FSX a little better than his i7 system did when testing the same scenarios on both rigs.Granted your milage may vary, but I have actually been so happy with the performance I get with my E8400 and all the addons in my sig that's its been really hard for me at this point to justify upgrading to the newer chips at this point. I know I will at some point, but until something with my current rig breaks I can see fixing something yet that ain't broke as they say.Sean Ca,pbell

Hey guys,I am thinking of upgrading my Intel E6750 to an E8600And my EVGA gforce 8800GT graphics card to a gigabyte GTX480/GTX465Will this give a noticeable performance improvement with FSX and PMDG 747 ?thanksyahav

Hi Yahav,I checked "Tom's Hardware Guide" CPU charts out of curiosity. Depending on which "benchmarks" you look at, the improvement based purely on going from Core 2 Duo 6750 to 8600 is about 15% may be 20%. Tom used to do tests with MS Flight Simulator X but even the years where he had those tests published (like in 2008 when I checked before buying my current PC), he has removed them. But think about it this way, only the CPU will increase frame rate for, say Aerosoft Amsterdam Schipol X airport from 12fps (pretty typical for E8400 which is what I have) to about 14fps. But your video card is incredibly powerful so that will really help. The "combination" of your new CPU and video card will definitely improve your frame rates, but the price of the CPU may not be worth the small gain in frame-rates. If you feel you can't afford to buy a motherboard, CPU and RAM to go to an i7 platform, then you have to consider these incremental improvements and see if they are worth the money. It would be much better if you get a Core 2 QUAD 9650 then the E8600. The improvements are considerably more. Even for me, going from an E8400 to a Quat 9650 (not extreme, just quad), is about 20% on average so for you, having a slower CPU (6750), you would see a much bigger difference. If your board supports this 9650, it may be a better deal, but it is still expensive even though it is a 2-yeard-old CPU. Good luck.John

Ryan is right on the money (as he usually is).When I upgraded my Mbord, processor and ram to the i7 triple channel, I saw a big improvement in performance. The biggest boost I have seen yet. Mix that with the GTX480 you can get quite 'aggressive' with the usepools tweaks.